Do Now• Define the following words: MigrationCapital investmentFiberboardProhibitionMoonshineDepressionNew DealBAWI

• Once you define the words, create a story (any story! Be creative its your story) using 6 of the 8 words you defined in their correct usage.

• Highlight the vocabulary words in your story

• The story must be a page length

• The words must be used correctly

Counties Map

• Label the Counties of MS on your map! Use page 420 to help you!

Mississippi Between the Wars

1918-1945

The Great Migration

• Thousands of African Americans moved North in search of jobs

• Labor shortages during the war in cities like Chicago

• If you could afford a train ticket you could “get out”

• Chicago Defender, a militant black newspaper, encouraged the migration by saying Chicago was the promised land for African Americans

How many migrated????

• 1910-1920: 150,000• 1930s: Very slow migration due to Depression• 1920-1940: 150,000• 1940s alone: Over 300,000!

How Migration affected MS• Caused a labor shortage• Whites used force and

threats to keep blacks from leaving– Police entered trains and

forced blacks to get off– Blacks were arrested if they

were seen buying a train ticket

• Blacks however used the threat of migrating to better their lives.. Get things they want if they stay

• Black doctors, lawyers, and newspaper editors left Mississippi and caused black middle class to decrease

• The gap between whites and blacks grew larger as a result

• By WWII, most blacks had been forced to work as field hands, domestic servants, or manual laborers

Governors election of 1924

• Candidates: Henry Whitfield, Theodore Bilbo, Lee Russell (incumbent)

• Women could vote in primary now due to 19th amendment (ratified in 1920!)

• Whitfield had the edge in the election– Russell was involved in a scandalous court case– Bilbo was actually jailed for contempt of court because he

refused to testify in court– Bilbo chooses to announce from jail that he is running for

governor• Whitfield promised to not embarrass the people of MS• Whitfield wins

Governor of the People• Blacks made up over half of the population• “If they did not prosper, the state does not

prosper”• Enforced laws that protected the blacks• Fewer lynching's because he expected proper

legal procedures • He actually visited black schools• Insisted on strict segregation yet heard requests

from blacks• Whitfield died in 1927

Bilbo Returns

• 1927 Election• He promised free textbooks and said the state

needs a factory to make them (better education and jobs!)

• Wanted a road program for the state• Bilbo wins • Supported reforms to improve quality of life

for poor white farmers

• Legislature (mostly democrats) ignored Bilbo

• Wanted to modernize and improve higher education

• Bilbo tried to consolidate Mississippi A & M, University of Mississippi, and Mississippi Southern College and move them to Jackson for one large university

• Did not work and eventually colleges got renamed to Mississippi State University, TSUN, University of Southern Mississippi

• Also created Jackson State University and Delta State University

Junior College System

• Agricultural schools were dying out (boarding high schools)

• Schools were getting more funding and schools were consolidating

• 1922- Agricultural schools become junior colleges (first two years)

• $50 a semester; $16 room and board– Today room and board estimates $1000 and $2100 a

semester• Gave average Mississippians an opportunity to better

themselves• 1939-1940: 4,000 students attended junior colleges

Write Questions1. Using evidence from the text, what role did

racial discrimination play in provoking southern blacks to migrate to the North? Cite at least one example that supports your claim.

2. Based on both of the texts, describe some of the economic hardships faced by blacks in the south.

3. Using an example from the text, why might southern elites have wanted blacks to remain in the South?